Quotes About Existence

We, all who live, have A life that is lived And another life that is thought, And the only life we have It's the one that is divided In right or wrong.

Sometimes I believe that this less material life is our truer life, and that our vain presence on the terraqueous globe is itself the secondary or merely virtual phenomenon.

Life and death are balanced as it were on the edge of a razor

What's terrible is that there's nothing terrible, that the very essence of life is petty, uninteresting, and degradingly trite.

Death is a part of life ... and that part of life needs everything that the rest of life does.

The way to use life is to do nothing through acting, The way to use life is to do everything through being.

Each life is one short word slowly uttered.

The novel is not the author's confession; it is an investigation of human life in the trap the world has become

The breath that sharpens life is life itself.

If this is the only planet on which not only life, but intelligent life, has arisen, that would be very unusual.

I have to live my life, and it is the only one I'll ever have.

This precious life is our opportunity. We are not the millions and millions of other things that are not human.

There is no true life within a false life.

Our main motivation for living is our will to find meaning in life.

Life is but sighs; and, when they cease, 'tis over.

Life gives meaning to life. The answer to the meaning of life is hidden right there inside the question.

I think one of the few times I've been involved with real-life characters was the story of Marie Bonaparte. I think it's really difficult to become someone that really existed.

Life... It's a great and terrible and short and endless thing. None of us come out of it alive.

Life will be lengthened while growing, for Thought is the measure of life.

It is good to appreciate that life is now. Whatever it offers, little or much, life is now – this day – this hour.

We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.

These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.

You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of women, they do not understand women, they write about women as creatures that never existed

Life is a terrible thing, thank God.